[RTTY] Proposal to move RTTY RU from ARRL

[RTTY via RTTY]

Thanks Jay,   

Good info.


-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of RTTY via RTTY
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:57 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Proposal to move RTTY RU from ARRL

Well I do know the history of the RTTY Roundup :-)  It was an ARRL Contest
created by myself and Hal K7iRA (Ex-WA7EGA) and put forth into the ARRL by
then Northwest Division Director Rush Drake W7RM - sk.  He along with two
other directors pressed forward and got it started.

So there you have it.  It is the ARRL contest always has been and hopefully
always will be.

It unlike CQ/DJ WW and WW WPX were RTTY contests that were started outside
the normal contest group and later included .  These are now known as CQ WW
RTTY and CQ WW WPX where in the past they had different names and indeed
origins.  There is somewhere in the archives of this list a lot of things
with K1RY on this as well as Dale Sinner, W6IWO.

In fact the RTTY Roundup which I did the results on for the previous 12
years is very likely to be the only contest any longer published in a
magazine with worldwide distribution.

This is not a good idea.  It is a complete over reaction to a petition for
Rule Making of which there are many over the years and of which I also am
not in complete agreement.  But throwing away one of the premiere RTTY
contests is surely not much of an answer.

I reflect back to the First RTTY SweepStakes which was held October 31st and
November 1, 1953.  This later became known as the CARTG (Canadian Amateur
Radio Teletype Group) which ran for 26 years until 1986 which is when I
started RTTY contesting.  CARTG then closed and the longest running RTTY
contest went away along with a fine group which was very significant in
RTTY for a long time.

That is where the point chart originated FWIW.

If anyone wants to read about all of these old historical things then you
can buy the CD's from Wayne K7WM who is good at our http://www.ewarg.org
site.  There is a link on the page to Wayne. These are the only authorized
_RTTY JOURNAL _copies which some might find interesting.

Much like the _RTTY JOURNAL, _the Dayton RTTY hotel, hospitality suite, the
Dayton RTTY DX& Contest dinner on Friday and the RTTY Dinner on Saturday,
loosing things is much easier to do that ever getting them going again.  But
thanks to the fine efforts we are again having a RTTY Dinner at Dayton.  Can
a RTTY hotel be far behind?

Jay WS7I
ws7ik7tj at gmail.com



On 4/19/2014 7:11 AM, RTTY via RTTY wrote:
> I propose that we have a discussion about moving the RTTY RU contest out
of
> the control of the ARRL.    I do not know the history of the RTTY RU
contest
> but I know it was co-founded by Jay, WS7I and was not a ARRL contest.
> Given the fact that the  ARRL is throwing traditional narrow band 
> waveforms like  RTTY "under the bus" then the ARRL should probably lose
the privilege
> of administering the RTTY RU contest.    Thoughts?
>
>   
>
> Terry  AB5K
>

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